Sunday, February 14, 2016

Visit with Rahim/ Chemo Oncologist

The blood labs turned out fine and Rahim basically met us with a follow up.He let us know that he was scheduling a follow up CT scan that he thought should have already been done to the one done in Boscobel in August."Just to be diligent," is what he said.The August CT scan had some 'things' in it that should be looked at again.Um. I don't like that. But I recall asking the attending doctor at the ER what exactly did all the techno stuff mean?His answer? See the VA and have a bone scan also scheduled. This was the doctor that had seen us 9 months before the VA caught the throat cancer and had said to Rich...get ENT to see you ASAP.Okay, so I'm not going to obsess over another scan. Rich has already said if there was more cancer to deal with in the future, we would only treat it with Palliative Care and nothing else.So far things are good, the basal skin cancer will be removed next month and we see a doctor this month to check on the floaters in his eyes.The stroke has affected Rich's eye - brain co-ordination and he is supposed to doing home assignments exercises for that. He does it when he feels like it.Too busy to take 5 minutes or 10 minutes a day for it. I'll have to insist on more Tai Chi if I can too. He has dropped the ball on that.So here it is 13 months from the day he came home and said the word Cancer. He is doing pretty well I think ... and so do the doctors, for going through a very rough regime of treatment and all of the things in between that he went through.However, Rich thinks he isn't doing as well. His weight has stayed fairly stable. Up and down a few pounds with each doc visit.Onward. Let this March be a much better one. Eye surgery and at the end of the month? Remodeling begins!